Ok... let me get this straight.
copyright.net has turned loose a tapeworm, called CopyrightAgent, that
crawls around on your computer without your permission, looking for copyrighted MP3 files. If it find them, it reports back your IP address, and they have Napster block you, if you're a Napster user. Otherwise, they contact your ISP, and have *them* block you under the DMCA.
And the first
I heard about this was a Knight-Ridder wire story in
my local paper?? Why the hell hasn't the Internet reacted by burning these people's offices (or uplink :-) to the ground?
posted by baylink
on Mar 3, 2001 -
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